​Qatar’s foreign policy has also been at odds with other GCC members. In the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, Doha supported Islamist organisations and Muslim Brotherhood-led administrations, including that of Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi. It also hosts exiled members of the Brotherhood from Egypt and Syria, where Qatar is accused of channelling funds to radical elements fighting the regime of Bashar Al Assad. The relationship between Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, according to Carnegie Center visiting fellow and Muslim Brotherhood expert, Raphael Lefevre, "has been one of converging interests and mutual trust" since the Arab Spring and is not likely to end. "Qatar has surfed on the wave of the Arab Spring by supporting the Brotherhood which was quite popular when Arab autocrats fell. Doha hoped its policy would earn it friends in high places and thus make it a regional power to be reckoned with." Yet Qatar’s close relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, a vast social and political organisation with branches across the Middle East, goes back to well before the 2011 uprisings. About 60 years ago the young country’s rulers turned to Abdul-Badi Saqr, an Egyptian Islamist, to help run its educational institutions. In subsequent years, Qatari officials recruited an influx of Islamist teachers from Egypt. Qaradawi moved to Qatar in 1961 where he ran a religious institute before becoming a dean at Qatar University.​ Well I think I've finally figured out what is possibly going on in the middle east with the current rift among the gulf states of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, The UAE, Bahrain, and Qatar. What is developing now in the middle east in the past 48 hours looks like an all out operation to eradicate the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the number one sponsor of Islamic terrorism. It's even been reported in the past that the Muslim Brotherhood funds terrorist groups like ISIS to bring in the Muslim Brotherhood into middle eastern countries who do not accept it...After all the definition of terrorism is using violence for political gains. We may have been getting the middle east issue all wrong up until this point, and that is all the problems in the middle east are likely all connected to the Muslim Brotherhood which was established in 1928 to usher in an Islamic Caliphate. Every middle eastern nation is likely infested with the Muslim Brotherhood operation...And Saudi Arabia likely knows this this is why Saudi Arabia is working with everything Trump wants. Saudi Arabian leadership likely knows nationalist in Saudi Arabia tied to the Muslim Brotherhood which gives Saudi Arabia the rap that they support terrorism, and it took Trump to get Saudi Arabia to begin this anti Muslim Brotherhood mission...Because they never would of got it with Muslim Brotherhood supporter Barack Obama. It's probably why Obama never truly attacked ISIS in the middle east. The operation against the Muslim Brotherhood has begun, and President Trump and Saudi Arabia are working together on this. Once the Muslim Brotherhood is taken out of the middle east...Islamic terrorism will likely end.